Re: letters

From: Kathryn Alexander (Kathryn_Alexander@sfu.ca)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 10:46:22 PDT


>Kathryn, Phillip,
>
>Thanks for your kind words of support. Some skulking around tonight (not by
>me) is a bit like the movie "the burbs" and there is some circumstantial
>evidence that the letter writer was provoked. :-0 And there are all sorts of
>other things in the grapevine, like the possibility of a letter of apology.
>Please excuse me as i simply, with as little judgement as possible, try to
>record and understand what is happening. Still however, living here, I feel
>the shocks of action and reaction, and the polarization feels extreme for the
>situation.
>
>I mean, I think of Mandela, or Friere, or the water in Woburn, or any
>number of
>other things to occupy one's passion, and this is petty. Nevertheless, there
>is activity here, and, here I am, swept along by an irresistable current. A
>theory of the activity of pettiness, of fighting wars already won and lost, of
>being in control of one's territory, of rights of the individual or
>landowner?
>Like cow chips, when dry there's texture, and when wet it's just stinky crap.
>
>
>bb
>

Bill you are right, please accept my apologies for ranting on about
situations that I have no experience. I read my posting this morning and
went - "sheesh" what a cranky old woman!!! "Hey you kids - stop
having fun!"

but it is intriguing that the unexpected turns and reverberations of
activity/responses does change things so quickly.

Stinky crap for sure - but it's not cow chips, it's human crap - hence the
extremes and the polarizations.

best

Kathryn

________________________________________________________________________________
"We live with strangers. those we love most, with whom we share a shelter,
a table, a bed, remain mysterious. Wherever lives overlap and flow
together, there are depths of unknowing." Mary Catherine Bateson, 2000,
from Full Circles, Overlapping Lives.

Kathryn Alexander,
Faculty of Education,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada

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